1. Courtney Mlinar
Fall 2012

2. Bell, Steven J., & Shank, John. (2004). The
blended librarian: A blueprint for redefining the
teaching and learning role of academic
librarians. College & Research Libraries News,
65(7), 372-375.

3. Reference or Academic Librarian
Information Technologist
Educational Technologist
Informationist
Who are we?

4. Questions:
Should librarians be embedded in courses?
Should embedded librarians be called
informationists?

5.  Leadership in organizational innovations
 Change agents
 Information (literacy) initiatives
 Instructional design
 Partnerships with IT/Faculty/Community
leaders
 Transforming roles and relationships
 Adapting library resources and access to
meet needs

6. Have you had an impact on your library users?
Have you influenced other librarians?
Have you created new resources or used new
technologies to facilitate learning or finding
information?

7. Dewey, Barbara I. (2004). The Embedded
Librarian: Strategic Campus Collaborations.
Resource Sharing & Information Networks,
17(1/2), 5-17. doi: 10.1300/J121v17n01̱02

8.  Journalists in Iraq war comparison
 Direct interaction within partnerships
 Librarian observes, shares experiences with
external group
 Comprehensive collaboration

9.  Share a vision of success with the group you
want to embed
 Learn what they are trying to accomplish
 Create ways the library resources can help
them reach their goals
 Think outside the box

10.  Librarian as key to success
 Fruitful partnerships built on understanding
of needs
 Library as new Salon

11.  Center of influence
 Mixing the disciplines
 Bringing people together for synergy
 Becoming the Source

12.  Librarians appointed to key committees
 Access to programming and planning
meetings outside the library
 Library integrated into all components of an
organization
 Librarians must be leaders AND
 Bring people together

13.  Partners with administrators
 Subject specialists or liaisons
 Research support
 Grant or fundraising expertise
 Technology support
 Involved with content in curriculum
 Homework help

14. Bowler, Meagan, & Street, Kori. (2008).
Investigating the efficacy of embedment:
experiments in information literacy integration.
Reference Services Review 36, 438-449.

15.  Bridging the gap between different groups
 Overcoming internal confidence problems
 Learning that you can make a difference
 Becoming familiar with the culture outside
the library
 Feeling you don’t know how to help them

16.  Have you ever helped a group outside the
library in a group setting with your library
skills?
 What are your strengths?
 What are you afraid of?

17. Faculty resistance?
 Trust
 Confidence
Key: if they feel they can learn something new
from you every time they interact with you.

18. Write a brief summary of what you learned in
the articles and share your concerns and
ideas about assuming the embedded librarian
role.
Please include any observations you have -
positive and negative- about embedded
librarianship.

19. Let’s personalize this discussion board:
Please include your strengths and skills which
you feel will be most useful in becoming an
embedded librarian.
Please include any stories about becoming
embedded or ideas about how you would like
to become an embedded librarian.